Why ‘Three Billboards’ Deserves to be Best Picture Despite the Backlash
This is a piece I’ve been meaning to write ever since I was dumbfounded to see CNN’s Jake Tapper shutting an interview down with Trump’s...
Category: Movie Reviews
South African Horror ‘Lullaby’ Has Some Intriguing Ideas, But Does It Bring the Scares?
Chloe is a young single mother who struggles to care for her baby under the watchful and oppressive eye of her mother and her mother’s...
‘Entanglement’ Review: A Surreal and Sweet Indie Comedy
Following a tough break up, Ben (Thomas Middleditch) decides to commit suicide. He makes several unsuccessful attempts to kill himself, ultimately being saved by luck....
Paco Plaza’s ‘Veronica’ is an Entertaining Supernatural Fright-fest
During a solar eclipse, three teenage girls conduct a séance with a Ouija board. The séance goes wrong and the girls run away scared. One...
‘The Mercy’ Review: Madness on the High Seas
The tragic story of Donald Crowhurst offers the dark other side to the underdog spirit. James Marsh’s film The Mercy recounts the tragic voyage of...
‘Lady Bird’ Review: Teen Angst and Snappy Comebacks. But Does Greta Gerwig’s Film Deserve the Oscar?
Greta Gerwig’s directorial debut is about a 17 year old girl (Saoirse Ronan) who has given herself the name Lady Bird. Nearing the end of...
‘Loveless’ Review: It’s the Young Who Suffer
A neglected child goes missing, forcing his separated parents to come together and search for him. Andrey Zvyagintsev’s new film is every bit as devastating...
‘Black Panther’ Review: A Super-Empowering Addition to the MCU. Includes Q&A with Ryan Coogler
Writer-Director Ryan Coogler visited the BFI Southbank to introduce an advanced screening of the new Marvel film Black Panther. In the film, Chadwick Boseman plays...
‘I, Tonya’ Review: Margot Robbie Impresses In This True Story of Ice Skating Infamy
I, Tonya is the extraordinary and possibly true story of Tonya Harding, covering her rise to fame and then fall to infamy. Margot Robbie plays...
‘Phantom Thread’ Weaves a Mesmerising Tale of Dark Romance
Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest character study follows the strange relationship between Alma (Vicky Krieps), a waitress, and Reynolds Woodcock (Daniel Day-Lewis), a fashion designer who...